The Rocinante
One of my favourite things on the Roci are the point defense cannon (PDC).
In space they make a little brrrrrt noise
In atmosphere they sound like artillery. BOOM BOOM BOOM. And they act like artillery too, all you can do is try to cover your ears.
Just fun to think how powerful those “little” PDCs need to be.
+1 for the Roci
Finished the series this week and am already suffering from withdrawal.
Read the books! There’s tons more. Unless that’s what you mean.
Ah that book ending though. chef’s kiss
It was pure perfection. Like if you’ve only seen the tv show, the book ending isn’t something you need to read, it’s something you deserve to read.
Yeaah, I really need to get to them! Especially since the last 3 didn’t make it to the TV series, from what I’ve read.
I assure you you won’t regret it.
Definitely the Rocinante!
Should have known I’d already find the Roci here.
This ship inspired me to ask this question :)
Oh that’s a good ship.
I was going to say the Trimaxion Drone Ship from Flight of the Navigator. Seems lame now. lol.
ahem
Definitely not the Chetzemoka lol
Although as much as I love the Roci, I might have to go with the Donnager as my real favorite. It’s just so damned intimidating.
Love seeing Roci up top!
Seriously? Someone named a spaceship after an old horse?
Cool.
I’m a huge Expanse fan, but come on. Compared to the Enterprise, the Roci shouldn’t even be hauling garbage, it should be taken away as garbage!
Romulan Warbird or the Saturn 5 rocket.
Nice choices.
The Heart of Gold, from The Hitchhikers Guide. Plot armour taken to its most literal extreme.
Yeah, passing though all points of the universe at the same time is so much better than mucking about in hyperspace.
I love the seriousity of a “improbability drive” shame such a banger idea is turned into a stupid joke machine.
The Apollo Lunar Lander. The only real space ship we ever built. (I guess we built another one for the next trip now, though, so I’ll go with “ever flown”)
People can say it’s ugly all they want, but, as an engineer, it’s exquisitely designed for its purpose. That’s true beauty to me.
Lexx is one of my favourite ships. It was such an oddball show as well.
Given how raunchy and insane that show is, the ship being an enormous dick and balls is so fitting. And I know it’s supposed to look like a dragonfly.
Ha! I literally never thought of that until I read your comment. I always hoped in the end that it would grow some giant wings but I moved out to work in another city and didn’t have cable so I never saw the end of the show. I guess I could download it and find out.
The USS Defiant
OP ass bullshit spaceship! It is pretty cool though.
The design is very human 😉
Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath
I’m not going to say Meatfucker did nothing wrong, but I always liked A Frank Exchange of Views .
I’ve always liked Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints
I dunno, man, their names all seem to have a lack of gravitas for some reason
Sleeper Service.
How did the quote go? Are we in danger? Nah you’re looking at a slow motion replay.
Killing Time is my all time favourite Culture warship. Especially because Peter Kenny gives it a pissed off London geiser accent.
xROU Killing Time: “Missed, fucker!”
Not sure in what context you’re asking this question, but my answer is the International Space Station. I love how it’s possible to see it at random sometimes at night, and the way it crosses the sky just looks different compared to a regular airplane flying at night.
Pedantic question! Does the ISS count as a spaceship? I feel like something that travels in an orbit is kind of the equivalent of something stationary on a planet… so it feels like more of a, uh, station, than a ship to me. It’s a good answer, though!
Feels like a tomato fruit situation. It’s technically a ship, but we know it as a station?
A marine equivalent might be a floating structure with its own propulsion system. Technically a boat, but it doesn’t move around that often and it let’s other boats dock/undock from it.
The ISS’s propulsion is just for small orbital adjustments, right?
I think so, not sure if it can do much more.
It has boosters. If it can move, it is a spaaaceshiiip!
True but it still has to be a ship!
Does the TARDIS count as a starship? That’s kinda cheating though.
Being capable of both time and space travel honestly makes it less implausible than a ship that just goes FTL. The whole “is infinite” thing is pretty speculative even if it’s cool, though.
I’m torn between the Defiant and Serenity
Serenity as a reaver ship is hard to beat
While not exactly a space ship, I’d say Thunderbird 2
The Kestrel Cruiser from FTL. Even though it’s not even the coolest ship in the game, The Kestrel is still the most nostalgic for me.
It brings me back to when I first played FTL a decade ago. I was a kid back then and loved the game so much, I even built and painted a cardboard Kestrel model.
When it comes to FTL, The Lanius Cruiser is my favorite, but Kestrel was fun to play too. I remember going back to it several times, after unlocking new ships.
The Red Dwarf :)
It’s cold outside, there’s no kind of atmosphere…
We’re all alone, for all time
The Red Dwarf? Mate, you must be outta your smeggin’ mind!
On my Facebook feed there was a Transformer toy in the shape of Starbug called Smegatron.
I can’t decide between The Planet Express ship and the space Van from Spaceballs.
What about the one at the very beginning of Spaceballs that went on and on?
Gotta go with the Normandy SR-2
And her crew 😢
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